Posted on 04/17/2005 3:27:31 AM PDT by Destro
I wish we could have them defrocked for being openly homosexual.
You are right, there are plenty of Episcopal Priests who are wonderful men. And women, but that's another problem.
I'd probably leave but why join a church where I'd be afraid to leave my children alone with them?
If the Catholics don't elect someone who will knot together a whip with cords and drive the moneychangers (deviants) out of the temple, there is no reason to leave. The catholics are just as screwed up as we are, worse in some ways. They've lost half their members, equivalent to many Episcopal Churches, they just had a lot more to begin with.
We left the ELCA because we could see the liberal direction they were going. We're very happy in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. No National Council of Churches, a solid Christ-centered message, no homosexuality and definitely pro-life. We couldn't be happier and we thank God for leading us here.
Is that awful, or what?
Unfortunately, however, they would be coming into a Roman Church that is presently in the same process that the Episcopal is; the former is caught up in the same reason that they would be leaving the latter. As with other things, the NewVatican policies of change lag behind the Episcopal by a decade or two, but the time lag has been shortening lately. I predict the same crisis in the so-called Catholic Church within 5 years at this rate.
Homosexual doesn't equal pedophile...the vast majority of pedophiles are straight white males.
After perusing all abusers and victims in this article it behooves me to think of the clamor in the Catholic church of those liberals who advocated abolishing celibacy. Yes! they say MARRIAGE WOULD PREVENT THESE ABUSES......who's kidding whom????
Straight white males like Michael Jackson?
Welcome. I think...
>>Homosexual doesn't equal pedophile...the vast majority of pedophiles are straight white males.<<
What a novel concept: just take in what the media dishes out, hook line and sinker! Oh, I know: let's call them "gay," and ignore the fact that they are the most unappy group you'll ever set eyes on. Ever see a lover's spat between two queers?
First off, they are not "pedophiles" they are child predators. To provide for their future "needs" they often resort to systematic conditioning of young boys, anticipating they will be "ready" when they come of age. Theirs is a sin that cries to heaven for vengeance (and that would be God's vengeance, not ours: e.g. Sodom and Gomorrah, etc.). Pederasty corrupts the youth and generates more predators. It can become epidemic, kind of like AIDS, if you catch the connection. A society that accepts and tolerates it is a society daring divine wrath.
Second, the targeting of young boys by perverted men is indeed homosexual. This might not be as clear cut in the Episcopal setting as it is in the Catholic. Only recently have altar boys been displaced by altar girls.
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